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Lebanon opposition leader sees crisis end: paper
BEIRUT (Reuters) - A Lebanese opposition leader said a deal to end the country's worst political crisis since the 1975-1990 civil war could emerge "within 48 hours", a newspaper ...

East Timor rebel escapes as troops launch raid
DILI (Reuters) - An Australian-led international peacekeeping force launched a raid to capture East Timor rebel Alfredo Reinado on Sunday, killing four people, an Australian commander said.

"Taliban gloomy" after Pakistani arrests
QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani police arrested five suspected Afghan militants in a raid in the city of Quetta and a Pakistani newspaper said on Sunday the Taliban had conceded the ...

Kuwait government resigns ahead of vote
KUWAIT (Reuters) - Kuwait's government resigned on Sunday in a move apparently aimed at thwarting a no-confidence motion against the Gulf Arab country's health minister, a member of the ...

Abbas, Hamas forces expanding
KARNI, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the ruling Hamas movement are pushing ahead with expansion plans despite a unity government deal ...

Six bodies found after helicopter goes down in UK
LONDON (Reuters) - Rescue workers recovered six bodies after a helicopter carrying gas rig workers went down off the northwest English coast on Wednesday, police said.

Guinea president juggles reshuffle amid feuding
CONAKRY (Reuters) - Guinea President Lansana Conte on Wednesday revised his a cabinet reshuffle in another sign of a power struggle between rival cliques vying to succeed him.

Colombia rebels free kidnapped police in gesture
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's second-largest rebel group released two police officers on Wednesday after holding them for a month in what appeared to be a peace gesture during talks with ...

UK regularly scrambles jets to check planes: report
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain regularly scrambles fighter jets to check on commercial aircraft flying into its air space, the head of Britain's Royal Air Force was quoted on Thursday as saying.

Italian linked to Litvinenko questioned in jail
ROME (Reuters) - The Italian contact of murdered former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko was questioned for six hours on Wednesday in a Rome jail by prosecutors investigating his possibly ...

Two held by Hezbollah badly wounded: Israeli sources
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Two Israeli soldiers were seriously wounded during their capture by Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas in July and at least one of them could now be dead, senior Israeli ...

Ethiopian troops moving on Somali supply route: witnesses
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - About 500 Ethiopian troops were spotted in Somalia on Wednesday along a main supply route to the government stronghold in Baidoa, as rains and floods stalled a feared ...

Legacies bind Castro, Pinochet in their twilight
SANTIAGO/HAVANA (Reuters) - Fighting serious illnesses in their old age, Cold War icons Fidel Castro of Cuba and Augusto Pinochet of Chile are united in stubborn adherence to their opposing ...

Iran to hold Holocaust conference next week
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's Foreign Ministry will hold a conference next week at which scholars from 30 countries will discuss the scale of the Holocaust -- dismissed as a myth by President ...

Fiji army warns against uprising, appoints interim PM
SUVA (Reuters) - Fiji's military chief said on Wednesday his troops would quickly suppress any uprising, as the country's deposed prime minister called for non-violent protests against the ...

U.S. charges son of ex-Liberian leader with torture
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor was charged in the United States on Wednesday with committing torture in Liberia, the Justice Department's first ...

Canada's top policeman quits over deportation case
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's top policeman resigned on Wednesday, a day after he admitted misleading legislators about how his force had botched the case of a Canadian deported to Syria by ...

Venezuela's Chavez rejects U.S. rapprochement overture
CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Within hours of President Hugo Chavez's re-election on Sunday, Washington made overtures to open dialogue with Venezuela. But the man who calls President ...

UK's Brown pledges schools boost
LONDON (Reuters) - UK Chancellor Gordon Brown gave an upbeat assessment of the economy on Wednesday, pledging billions of pounds for schools as he prepared the ground to take over as prime ...

France says in a hurry to reach Iran sanctions deal
PARIS (Reuters) - France said on Wednesday world powers must agree quickly on sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program or put the credibility of the United Nations at risk.

Couples queue for passion in a Dutch car on stilts
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Couples in Amsterdam are writing out their dreams of passion for the chance to spend a night in a small car fitted with a bed and hoisted up on poles.

Venezuelan Chavez wants to be world's anti-U.S. voice
CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez staked a claim to be the world's leading anti-American voice by branding President Bush as the devil in a speech to ...

Japan voters worry about Abe's leadership ability
TOKYO (Reuters) - A hefty majority of Japanese voters support the country's new prime minister-to-be, Shinzo Abe, two media surveys published on Friday showed, but many also have ...

Russia slams NATO over ties with Georgia
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Friday denounced moves by NATO to forge closer ties with Georgia, saying any eventual membership of the Western alliance by the ex-Soviet state would ...

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